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Outremont

Outremont is an affluent residential borough (arrondissement) of the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Outremont
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The place

Outremont is an affluent residential borough (arrondissement) of the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It consists entirely of the former city on the Island of Montreal in southwestern Quebec. The neighbourhood is inhabited largely by Francophones, and is also home to a Hasidic Jewish community. Since the 1950s, Outremont has been mostly residential, but some streets such as Van Horne, Bernard and Laurier have many commercial buildings.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Outremont

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    McGill University

    McGill University is an English-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1821 by royal charter, the university bears the name of James McGill, a Scottish merchant, whose bequest in 1813 established the University of McGill College.

    3.3 km · English-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Université de Montréal

    The Université de Montréal is a French-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university's main campus is located in the Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce on Mount Royal near the Outremont Summit, in the borough of Outremont.

    1.4 km · university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Concordia University

    Concordia University is a public English-language research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1974 with the merger of Loyola College and Sir George Williams University, Concordia is one of the three universities in Quebec where English is the primary language of instruction.

    3.7 km · university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

    The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is an art museum in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is the largest art museum in Canada by gallery space.

    3.5 km · art museum in Montreal, Quebec, Canada · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Saint Joseph's Oratory

    Saint Joseph's Oratory of Mount Royal is a Roman Catholic minor basilica and national shrine located at 3800 Queen Mary Road in the Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood on Mount Royal's Westmount Summit in Montreal, Quebec. It is a National Historic Site of Canada and is Canada's largest church, with one of the largest church domes in the world.

    2.8 km · Roman Catholic minor basilica and national shrine in Montreal, Quebec, Canada · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Polytechnic School of Montreal

    Polytechnique Montréal is a public research university affiliated with the Université de Montréal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The school offers graduate and postgraduate training, and is active in research.

    1.3 km · university in Montréal · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Agence universitaire de la Francophonie

    The Agence universitaire de la Francophonie is a global network of French-speaking higher-education and research institutions. Founded in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1961, as the Association des Universités Partiellement ou Entièrement de Langue Française, the AUF is a multilateral institution supporting co-operation and solidarity among French-speaking universities and institutions.

    1.7 km · university network based in Montreal, Canada · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Redpath Museum

    The Redpath Museum is a museum of natural history belonging to McGill University and located on the university's campus on Sherbrooke Street West in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was built in 1882 as a gift from the sugar baron Peter Redpath.

    3.3 km · museum of natural history in Montreal, Quebec, Canada · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Montreal Holocaust Museum

    The Montreal Holocaust Museum is a museum located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is dedicated to educating people of all ages and backgrounds about the Holocaust, while sensitizing the public to the universal perils of antisemitism, racism, hate and indifference.

    3.4 km · Holocaust museum in Montreal, Quebec, Canada · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Hochelaga

    Hochelaga was a St. Lawrence Iroquoian 16th century fortified village on or near Mount Royal in present-day Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

    3.5 km · archaeological site · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Outremont

Airports
Montreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau (YUL), 11 km · Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier (YOW), 162 km · Quebec Jean Lesage (YQB), 222 km
Stations
Guy-Concordia, 3.7 km · Atwater, 3.8 km · McGill, 3.8 km · Peel, 3.7 km · Plamondon, 3 km
  • Ottawa → Outremont
    163 km · quickest by road, 3h 4m · C$24–32
  • Quebec → Outremont
    234 km · quickest by road, 4h 23m · C$31–42
  • Hamilton → Outremont
    14404 km · quickest by air, 29h 20m · NZ$3,140–4,850
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Outremont

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Outremont. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inTimed connections in Quebec City enable same day trips to and from Rimouski via Rivière-du-Loup.
  • Get inTimed connections in Quebec City and Rimouski enable same day trips to and from Gaspé, Percé, and Pointe-à-la-Croix.
  • Go nextQuebec City, about 3 hours to the north east on Highway 40, is almost but not quite a day trip.

From Wikivoyage: Montreal, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    411 km
  2. 02
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    543 km
  3. 03
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    3,125 km
  4. 04
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    3,138 km
  5. 05
    SabaNL

    8 ways of moving, 22 sources

    3,246 km

If you know how people move in Outremont – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Outremont

Outremont is 2 km from Montréal, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.